Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.